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When it comes to setting goals, 10 x 10 % ≠ 1

Just a few weeks ago, many of us wrote goals for 2021. Unfortunately, though, many of us set ourselves up for failure before we even got started.

You’ve probably heard the statistics: only 8% of people achieve their New Year’s resolutions. To go from a goal setter to a goal achiever, start by remembering that 10 x 10% ≠ 1. In fact, when it comes to goal setting, 10 x 10% = 0.

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Original Content, Professional Development Original Content, Professional Development

ApochroMinute 12: 2 Things

If you’re having trouble feeling productive right now, you’re not alone. Skip the memes shaming you for not decluttering your house and adopting 10 new habits. Instead, we have a suggestion to feel more productive and more in control.

And, when this is over, you might just be a better ukulele player, have improved that rusty high school French, or mastered Excel pivot tables. But you’ll also have your sanity and energy intact.

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Keith R- Sbiral, Original Content, Professional Office Keith R- Sbiral, Original Content, Professional Office

How is 2020 going for you?

If your check engine light comes on in your car do you go on YouTube, buy some self help books, check with friends, ignore it as long as you can, and eventually take it apart in the evening after work in your garage?  Or, do you call your mechanic or car dealership to run a diagnostic?  The vast majority of us don’t have the technical skill to troubleshoot modern cars...but do we have the technical skills to troubleshoot our career and personal goals?

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Mastermind, Original Content Mastermind, Original Content

Don’t make resolutions, and 6 other tips for success in 2020

Last Wednesday wasn’t magical. 

There, I said it.  Yes, the new year is exciting – time to turn the page on 2019, and look forward to the blank slate of 2020.  If your inbox is like mine, you probably had an onslaught of emails Tuesday and Wednesday with subject lines like “New Year, New You,” “New Year, New Discoveries,” or my favorite: “New Year, New Shoes” (because evidently, the 2019 me is good enough, but my shoes aren’t?!). 

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Coaching, Goal Setting, Mastermind, Original Content Coaching, Goal Setting, Mastermind, Original Content

Second to last month of...the decade!

The end of one month and beginning of the next is the perfect time to look ahead and reset where you are and where you’re going.  It’s less intimidating and overwhelming than the beginning of a new year, and much more manageable to think about how you’ll use the next month to have more of the things you want in your career and life, and less of the things you don’t.  And, as we enter one of the last two months of the decade, now is a great time to follow these six steps to set yourself up for a great month.  

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Mastermind, Original Content Mastermind, Original Content

Don’t make resolutions, and 6 other tips for success in 2019

Tuesday wasn’t magical. 

There, I said it.  Yes, the new year is exciting – time to turn the page on 2018, and look forward to the blank slate of 2019.  If your inbox is like mine, you probably had an onslaught of emails Tuesday and Wednesday with subject lines like “New Year, New You,” “New Year, New Discoveries,” or my favorite: “New Year, New Shoes” (because evidently, the 2018 me is good enough, but my shoes aren’t?!). 

But beyond the emails trying to get us to whip out our credit cards, the new year is a good time to reflect on last year and think about how we’d like the next year to be different.  Here’s the catch, though: You probably tried that last year, yet all of the new shoes in the world won’t help you make progress on your goals in 2019.  Instead, you need a dose of reality, and what we call the CAN-DO Formula.

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